= David Tong
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A charismatic, perfect-<English (language)>-accent (<Received Pronunciation>) <physicist> from <University of Cambridge>, specializing in <quantum field theory>.
He has done several "<vulgarization>" lectures, some of which could be better called undergrad appetizers rather, a notable example being <video Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe by David Tong (2017)> for the prestigious <Royal Institution>, but remains a hardcore researcher: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=felFiY4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate[]. Lots of <open access> publications BTW, so <kudos>.
The amount of lecture notes on his website looks really impressive: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/teaching.html[], he looks like a good educator.
David has also shown some interest in applications of high energy mathematical ideas to <condensed matter>, e.g. links between the <renormalization group> and <phase transition> phenomena. TODO there was a YouTube video about that, find it and link here.
<Ciro Santilli> <physics gossip>[wonders] if his family is of <East Asian>, origin and if he can still speak any east asian languages. "Tong" is of course a transcription of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tong_(surname)[several major Chinese surnames] and from looks he could be mixed blood, but as mentioned at https://www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=tong it can also be an English "metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongs[tongs]". After staring at his picture for a while Ciro is going with the maker of tongs theory initially.
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